{"id":3535,"date":"2009-05-19T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-19T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/oyb\/3535\/"},"modified":"2017-01-26T14:57:43","modified_gmt":"2017-01-26T19:57:43","slug":"3535","status":"publish","type":"oyb","link":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/oyb\/3535","title":{"rendered":"Let the Lord defend you."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let the Lord defend you.<br \/>\n1 Samuel 24-25 includes two stories where David is tempted to defend himself, to take his own revenge\/vengeance. One, is the opportunity to kill King Saul as he relieves himself in a cave. The other is with the fool Nabal, who offends David. In both instances, David is kept from shedding blood in his own defense. In the Saul instance, David&#8217;s men even tempt him with the old &#8220;it&#8217;s the Lord&#8217;s will&#8221; that you do this. We will all be tempted to defend ourselves, to take justice into our own hands. But like David we can let God handle it. It&#8217;s always best to let God be our defender instead of defending ourselves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let the Lord defend you.<br \/>\n1 Samuel 24-25 includes two stories where David is tempted to defend himself, to take his own revenge\/vengeance. One, is the opportunity to kill King Saul as he relieves himself in a cave. The other is with the fool Nabal, who offends David. In both instances, David is kept from shedding blood in his own defense. In the Saul instance, David&#8217;s men even tempt him with the old &#8220;it&#8217;s the Lord&#8217;s will&#8221; that you do this. We will all be tempted to defend ourselves, to take justice into our own hands. But like David we can let God handle it. It&#8217;s always best to let God be our defender instead of defending ourselves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"scripture-book":[],"scripture-chapter":[],"oyb_day":[1666],"location":[],"class_list":["post-3535","oyb","type-oyb","status-publish","hentry","oyb_day-may-19"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/oyb\/3535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/oyb"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/oyb"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3535"},{"taxonomy":"scripture-book","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/scripture-book?post=3535"},{"taxonomy":"scripture-chapter","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/scripture-chapter?post=3535"},{"taxonomy":"oyb_day","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/oyb_day?post=3535"},{"taxonomy":"location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location?post=3535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}